This is one of those pages I didn’t want to put speech bubbles on, because I didn’t want to overlay any of Michael’s great art. Considering the script I’m giving him — with explosions, cityscapes, and now horses — he’s doing a great job. 🙂
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Roger: No -- don't turn around! It makes a cooler video if you don't look at the explosion!
Jacob: I like looking at explosions.
Girii: That's sick.
Jacob: ...so I can dodge if debris flies my way.
Girii: Oh.
Jacob: All right, let's get to that bridge...and see...what?
Jacob: I like looking at explosions.
Girii: That's sick.
Jacob: ...so I can dodge if debris flies my way.
Girii: Oh.
Jacob: All right, let's get to that bridge...and see...what?
Well that’s new.
I guess Zoe really is Roger’s fairy godmother
I love it.
And I’m steadily getting used to more angular Jacob.
Hmmm….it seems that rescue operations are being sub-contracted to the magical kingdom nowadays. I wonder if Donald Duck or the the Three Stooges will make an appearance as the gang’s escort and carriage driver?
I assume when he says he’s going to dodge debris, he’s talking about the slower stuff, as opposed to high-velocity shrapnel… right? Because dodging high-velocity shrapnel is no easy feat!
Also, that last panel makes me quite curious. What exactly happens to the other two horses when one of those pairs starts moving?
That’s a funny carriage. An experiment?
push-me-pull-carriage?
Cinderella meets Phantasm?
Princess Shepard away!!!
It’s too late to dodge high-velocity shrapnel.
When you hear the explosion, the high-velocity shrapnel is already way past you. Or through you.
I think Tim and Sid are missing the obvious here, he’s a genocide man, reflexes aren’t exactly an issue here and I think he meant usually, if his reactions are faster than the 14 milliseconds that we regular humans take to process visual input, then he has a fair shot at reacting I’d say. We’ve already seen what a hot off the presses genocide man is capable of, how much more for a seasoned veteran that is accustomed to their augmented body?
I think NJB is missing my point: Shrapnel travelling at speeds faster than sound will already have passed you by the time you hear the explosion.
And I’m pretty sure they heard the explosion before Jacob “turned around”, as Roger says. Hence no visual input either. Or at least, no pre-impact visual input …
Sidhekin has a point there.
I think the most visceral way of understanding high-velocity shrapnel is to go and (re)watch that classic Mythbusters footage of the cement truck explosion. It doesn’t make a nice Hollywood orange cloud, it vanishes. Bonus points if you take note of the bomb tech’s express desire to be nowhere in viewable range of the truck, due to the risks involved with high-velocity shrapnel.
Jacob’s inhumanly fast, I know that. But high-velocity doesn’t just mean inhumanly fast, it means exceedingly faster than the most inhumanly fast of mechanical movement, organic or otherwise. If you consider how fast a bullet moves when there’s that tiny explosion behind it, just think about how fast a much smaller chunk of metal goes with the energy of a huge explosion propelling it.
There is nothing that can withstand the wrath of raw physics when it’s pointed in your direction. Isn’t that exactly the reason why he’s using bombs in the first place?
I see I forgot to type the conclusion. Twice. For clarity, then: The debris Jacob is talking about must be the slower stuff.
Or he would have turned around before they heard the explosion. 🙂
Just read everything in one go…why did it have to end now?^^”